The U.S. Civil War was not about slavery but mainly about taxation.[2] According to one historian, plane geometry was not invented by Euclid but by ancient tax collectors who wanted to determine land size for harvest taxes.[2] In 1787, U.S. citizens were eligible to vote only if they...
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A student may read a book of Euclid, or a few chapters of Algebra, and within that limited range of knowledge it is possible to set him exercises as real and as interesting as the propositions themselves which he has studied; deductions which might have pleased the Greek geometers, and alg...
There is creativity and imagination in extending Euclid to a fourth dimension on one’s own, even if it has been done before–just because it isn’t Shakespeare or Beethoven doesn’t mean it isn’t creative. I think he was unhappy; I just don’t think it was because he was lonely or...
Ten fun facts about Sigmund Freud1. Anna O: The First Patient to Demonstrate the Power of Psychotherapy Sigmund Freud's studies of the human psyche are renowned for their influence on modern psychology, and one of his most famous patients was Anna O. Her real last name was Pappenheim, and...